Not quite the birthday, actually, but it has been three years since the release of Firefox 1.0.
Firefox's real day of birth was actually April 1st of 2002 with the first mozilla/browser check-in.
But even that doesn't tell the whole story since the overwhelming majority of Firefox's code actually came into public existence with the first landings of NGLayout and the XPFE back in October of 1998.
Once again, though, that would leave out some of the great code we still use in Firefox that was originally made public with the release of the Mozilla source code on March 31st of 1998.
Still, to really be complete, you'd probably have to go back even a couple years earlier to the find code for NSPR, NSS, SpiderMonkey, and other bits around the codebase which still live today in Firefox.
So, happy birthday to Firefox 1.0, but it's sure been a lot bigger effort than just the last three years.
Posted by: Mr Lizard | November 9, 2007 6:27 PM
Three cheers for Firefox!
Posted by: David Naylor | November 9, 2007 6:33 PM
Happy Birthday, Firefox, however old you are! Last I checked, Firefox had just under 20% of the market. Onward and upward.
Posted by: Dingo | November 14, 2007 11:51 AM
Who would have thought it could have had such an impact?